A survey from cybersecurity firm Netwrix revealed that the execution of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will put additional pressure on IT resources and expenses, and especially on financial organizations. The survey “2020 Data Risk & Security Report”...
A coalition of cybersecurity businesses and professionals in the U.K. wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to reform the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA). The coalition includes major cybersecurity firms like NCC Group, F-secure,...
Border disputes between countries are common these days. But these very countries engage in another kind of warfare, where there are no “boots on the ground” planes in the air or warships in the sea. Instead, it’s a war...
Few weeks back, the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison briefed the nation about sustained cyberattacks carried out by a sophisticated state-sponsored actor. To fortify the cyberspace, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has been ever since taking counter measures...
Electronics and health technology provider Philips has reported a vulnerability to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) in its ultrasound medical devices, which allows threat actors to take control of the medical devices, remotely.
In an official statement, CISA stated...
A survey by multinational law firm Linklaters revealed that GDPR-related data breach notifications across European countries have increased by 66%, compared to the first year of the GDPR (from May 25, 2018 to May 24, 2019). However, the U.K....
OneClass app, a Canada-based online learning platform, suffered a data breach after an unsecured Elasticsearch database exposed personal information of over 1 million students across North America. Security researchers at vpnMentor discovered the leaky database sized over 27GB that...
Cybersecurity is a sophisticated art. It can truly consume the time and resources of IT teams as they work to safeguard valuable data from the growing risk of cyberattacks and data breaches. The technical nature of it, along with...
With a target reach of 44 countries, affecting nearly 135 companies and net earnings of more than $1.5 million, meet Fxmsp, the ‘Richie Rich’ of the underground market who made a fortune by selling corporate network access. This famed...
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently admitted that it paid $1.14 million to cybercriminals after suffering a ransomware attack. In an official statement, UCSF stated that attackers injected malware that encrypted databases inside the School of Medicine,...
